“Ungodly Boredom: The Impossibility of Divine Ennui in the Christian Tradition,” in the Evangelical Philosophical Society Far West Regional Meeting 2015, April 10, 2015.

“Boredom and Pop Culture,” in “Apologetics and Pop Culture: Defending the Faith in the Age of Avatar, LOST and Twitter,” Panel Discussion, California Baptist University, March 27, 2012.

“An Apologetic of Love and Beauty,” in “To Convince or Constrain? A Discussion on the Nature of Apologetics,” The First Annual Discussion Panel on Apologetics in the 21st Century, California Baptist University, October 11, 2011.

"Becoming What We Once Were: An Argument for Restorative Revelation and its Symbiotic Relationship with Natural Theology," in Live Options in the Study of Religion, The Society for Philosophy and Religion in Claremont, March 25, 2011.

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Personal Quote / Scripture / Philosophy of Education

"Therefore liberty does not mean that we do not do the law, but that we will and desire spontaneously from our hearts that which the law demands" - Philip Melanchthon

"But whereas the frivolous pursuits of grown-up people are called "business," children are punished for behaving in the same fashion, and no one is sorry for either the children or the adults" - St Augustine

"Reason without goodness is not reason, and goodness without reason is not goodness." - Tertullian

"Faith in its full Christian sense can be nothing more than this: to make the whole man a space that responds to the divine content." - Hans Urs Von Balthasar

"It's perfectly reasonable to deny Christianity as long as you can explain how 4 fishermen, a tax collector and a man who had a seizure on the road to Damascus managed to convince the world that a dead Jewish carpenter was God" - John Patrick

"A philosopher is a man who has to cure many intellectual diseases in himself before he can arrive at the notions of common sense" - Wittgenstein